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Mollusks from the Upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica Journal of Paleontology, page 1 of 23 Copyright © 2019, The Paleontological Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 0022-3360/19/1937-2337 doi: 10.1017/jpa.2018.84 Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica Thomas M. Claybourn,1,2 Sarah M. Jacquet,3 Christian B. Skovsted,4 Timothy P. Topper,4,5 Lars E. Holmer,1,5 and Glenn A. Brock2 1Department of Earth Sciences, Palaeobiology, Uppsala University, Villav. 16, SE-75236, Uppsala <[email protected]> <[email protected]> 2Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109 <[email protected]> 3Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 <[email protected]> 4Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 5007, SE-104 05, Stockholm <[email protected]> <[email protected]> 5Shaanxi Key laboratory of Early Life and Environments, State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics and Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China <[email protected]> Abstract.—An assemblage of Cambrian Series 2, Stages 3–4, conchiferan mollusks from the Shackleton Limestone, Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica, is formally described and illustrated. The fauna includes one bivalve, one macromollusk, and 10 micromollusks, including the first description of the species Xinjispira simplex Zhou and Xiao, 1984 outside North China. The new fauna shows some similarity to previously described micromollusks from lower Cambrian glacial erratics from the Antarctic Peninsula. The fauna, mainly composed of steinkerns, is relatively low diver- sity, but the presence of diagnostic taxa, including helcionelloid Davidonia rostrata (Zhou and Xiao, 1984), bivalve Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980, cambroclavid Cambroclavus absonus Conway Morris in Bengtson et al., 1990, and bradoriid Spinospitella coronata Skovsted et al., 2006, as well as the botsfordiid brachiopod Schizopholis yorkensis (Ushatinskaya and Holmer in Gravestock et al., 2001), in the overlying Holyoake Formation correlates the succession to the Dailyatia odyssei Zone (Cambrian Stages 3–4) in South Australia. Introduction pre-trilobitic Terreneuvian (Khomentovsky et al., 1990; Kou- chinsky et al., 2012) and range through to the Early Ordovician During the early Cambrian, East Antarctica was sutured between (Gubanov and Peel, 2001; Peel and Horný, 2004). the now southern coast of Australia, Southeast Africa, and India The taxonomic position of helcionelloids remains unre- and located at tropical latitudes (Brock et al., 2000; Torsvik and solved, with numerous authors suggesting different affinities Cocks, 2013a, b). The Shackleton Limestone crops out meri- and phylogenetic relationships (Parkhaev 2008, table 3.1). dionally and episodically along the Central Transantarctic Early efforts placed some asymmetrically coiled helcionelloids Mountains (Fig. 1). While the true thickness of this carbonate in the late Paleozoic macluritid gastropods and bilaterally sym- unit remains uncertain (Myrow et al., 2002), it is estimated to metrical forms with the monoplacophoran tryblidiids—then be up to 2,000 m thick in places (Laird et al., 1971; Burgess considered a ‘primitive’ gastropod taxon (Knight, 1952). Hel- and Lammerink, 1979). The unit consists of many lithofacies cionelloids have also been suggested by some authors to be including sandy carbonates, pure limestones, and archaeocyath- basal to the rest of the Gastropoda (e.g., Golikov and Staroboga- microbialite bioherms (Rees et al., 1989; Myrow et al., 2002). tov, 1975; Runnegar and Jell, 1976; Parkhaev, 2017a); a poly- The newly recovered fauna from measured stratigraphic sections phyletic approach was proposed by other authors, with some through autochthonous exposures of the Byrd Group, central helcionelloids considered ancestral to the major groups of mol- Transantarctic Mountains, includes archaeocyaths, brachiopods, lusks (Runnegar and Jell, 1976, fig. 4; Runnegar, 1983, fig. 1) bradoriid arthropods, cambroclavids, chancelloriids, hyoliths, while others (the superfamily Helcionellacea Wenz, 1938) sponge spicules, and tommotiids. This paper focusses on were referred to the monoplacophorans. Problems with these descriptions and biostratigraphy of eight helcionelloids, two classification schemes are apparent, as a diagnostic criterion of pelagiellids, one scenellid, and the bivalve Pojetaia runnegari the gastropods is torsion (Salvini-Plawen, 1980; Ponder and Jell, 1980. Helcionelloids are typical components of ‘small Lindberg, 1997), a characteristic obvious only in soft anatomy shelly fossil’ (SSF) assemblages in lower Cambrian (Terreneu- and never convincingly demonstrated in any helcionelloid vian, Cambrian Series 2) strata around the world (Bengtson, taxon (but see Runnegar, 1981). A monoplacophoran affinity 2004; Kouchinsky et al., 2012). Widespread phosphatized stein- is also difficult to demonstrate as helcionelloids invariably kerns of micromorphic univalved helcionelloids appear in the lack the serially repeated muscles scars on the shell interior 1 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, on 09 Jan 2019 at 11:15:56, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.84 2 Journal of Paleontology:1–23 Figure 1. (1) Map of Antarctica showing approximate extent of the Transantarctic Mountains and area shown in (2). (2) Map of Nimrod Glacier, Holyoake Range, and Churchill Mountains. (3) Generalized relationship of Cambrian (Byrd Group) and Neoproterozoic (Beardmore Group) rock units of the Holyoake Range, adapted from Myrow et al. (2002). (4) Simplified geological map of the Holyoake Range, adapted from Myrow et al. (2002). reflecting the muscle attachment common to all extant monopla- Recognized sinistral and dextral asymmetrical deviations from cophorans (Lindberg, 2009). Lindsey and Kier (1984) hypothe- typically symmetric forms remain within Helcionelloida (Guba- sized a separate paraphyletic class for some asymmetrical nov and Peel, 2000). Recent systematic treatment of pelagiellids helcionelloid mollusks (the Paragastropoda) on the basis that has them assigned to the helcionelloids (e.g., Skovsted and Peel, they lacked evidence of both torsion and serially repeated mus- 2007; Topper et al., 2009; Wotte and Sundberg, 2017) or to the cle scars, which included the pelagiellids. However, the asym- gastropods (e.g., Landing et al. 2002; Parkhaev, 2007a, 2017a). metrically coiled pelagiellids are perhaps the best candidates While many authors have worked on the paleobiology of for inclusion in the gastropods. Preserved features such as mus- the helcionelloids (e.g., Peel, 1991a; Brock, 1998; Parkhaev, cle scars similar to those found in torted gastropods (Landing 2000, 2001), these and other SSFs can also be utilized in biostra- et al., 2002, fig. 9), a large mantle cavity, and potential anal tigraphy, with certain caveats. Parkhaev in Gravestock et al. notch have been inferred by some authors as indirect evidence (2001) created loosely defined molluscan assemblage ‘zones’ of torsion (Landing et al., 2002). The class Helcionelloida for their work on the biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian suc- Peel, 1991a was erected to include bilaterally symmetrical cession in the Stansbury Basin, South Australia. These were forms, excluding asymmetrical forms of the Paragastropoda. defined according to the presence of certain key taxa, and four Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, on 09 Jan 2019 at 11:15:56, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.84 Claybourn et al.—Lower Cambrian mollusks from East Antarctica 3 ‘zones’ were recognized (oldest to youngest): Pelagiella suban- used to indicate ontogeny, and morphological differences gulata, Bemella communis, Stenotheca drepanoida, and Pela- between two steinkerns of the same size may not indicate taxo- giella madianensis ‘zones.’ Jacquet et al. (2017) criticized nomically meaningful differences. The term ‘teilsteinkern’ was these molluscan biozones noting they have very poorly defined introduced to describe incomplete internal molds (Dattilo et al., boundaries and are based on poorly preserved, long-ranging taxa 2016). with considerable overlapping ranges. Close inspection of the Some evidence suggests that the preservation of phosphatic data provided by Gravestock et al. (2001) reveals clear temporal steinkerns is tied to particular lithologies and depositional pro- discrepancies between the sections on Yorke and Fleurieu cesses. Phosphate replacement and coating of originally calcar- peninsulas (see Jacquet et al., 2017, p. 1093–1094 for details; eous fossils was related to phosphate precipitation and intense Betts et al., 2016a). denitrification within sediments or above an oxygen minimum Broad biostratigraphic correlations of lower Cambrian zone (Landing 1992; Landing et al., 2002). Subsequently, Jac- rocks have proven difficult due to strong provincialism and quet et al. (2016a) noted the occurrence of abundant micromol- facies dependence in faunas (Landing, 1992; Mount and Signor, luskan
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